Research
| Title： | Description of a new cave-dwelling species of Claea (Teleostei, Cypriniformes, Nemacheilidae) from the Yangtze River basin in Sichuan, southern China |
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| First author： | Lei, Hao-Tian; He, Li; Huang, Jun-Hao; Zhou, Jia-Jun; He, De-Kui |
| Journal： | ZOOSYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION |
| Years： | 2025 |
| DOI： | 10.3897/zse.101.146469 |
| Abstract： | The first obligatory troglobitic Claea species, Claea scet, is described from a subterranean river in a cave connected to the Yangtze River in Hulu Town, Shawan District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, southern China. C. scet differs from all congeners by the following combination of characters: Body pale without pigmentation; eye vestigial, diameter of eye 3.8-5.9% SL; short anal fin, anal fin height 7.0-8.4% SL. Molecular phylogenetic analysis supported the validity of the new species and revealed a close relationship between Claea and hypogean Triplophysa species. |
